Peace With Sexuality And Sensuality

Given that sexuality is such a multilayered and thorough part of human existence, it is in every individual's best interest to reason out whatever metaphysical, moral, and personal information about the matter that they can.  Nevertheless, there are benefits to understanding and accepting the fact that humans are sexual beings which go beyond simply avoiding intellectual or theological errors.  Even the nonsexual elements of human life can be appreciated more because of this.

Sensuality is frequently mistaken for sexuality, even though the two do not intersect when it comes to numerous human experiences.  For example, enjoying the sight of an attractive member of the opposite gender, clothed or unclothed to any extent, can be a completely nonsexual experience, even though it might be sexual in another case.  While mere sensuality and sexuality might overlap in this scenario, they can be separate (this is not to say that sexuality does not involve sensuality, but to say that sensuality is not an expression of sexuality in itself).

Peace with sexuality (in all of its nonsinful manifestations) allows a person to accept a part of themselves and of others that has long been misunderstood by secular and Christian circles alike.  The sexual and introspective benefits of this are clear.  However, peace with sexuality is often accompanied by a broader peace with nonsexual sensuality, which allows people enjoy the sensual pleasure of the human body without automatic fear of being overwhelmed by hedonistic impulses or mistaking something nonsexual for something sexual.

Acceptance of the nonsexuality of mere sensuality does not by any means have to diminish the strong pleasure that can be stirred up by the sight, thought, or touch of the human body.  Still, pleasure encompasses far more than sexuality, and those who have accepted nonsinful pleasures of sexuality are more likely to accept nonsinful pleasures of sensuality as a whole.  The former can be spiritually and personally fulfilling, but the latter represents a more total fulfillment that already encompasses the former.